Comparing the Effects of Governmental and Local Family Intervention Projects on Social Work Practices in Norway: A Cluster-Randomised Study
dc.contributor.author | Malmberg-Heimonen, Ira | |
dc.contributor.author | Tøge, Anne Grete | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-06T11:29:53Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-21T06:33:31Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-06T11:29:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-21T06:33:31Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-02-11 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Malmberg-Heimonen, Tøge. Comparing the Effects of Governmental and Local Family Intervention Projects on Social Work Practices in Norway: A Cluster-Randomised Study. British Journal of Social Work. 2020 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0045-3102 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0045-3102 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1468-263X | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/8930 | |
dc.description.abstract | Increased child poverty in Europe has urged the need for poverty alleviating measures, such as family intervention projects. In this project, family coordinators follow-up low-income families on multiple areas. The cluster-randomised evaluation compares effects of governmental and local family intervention projects on social work practices in Norway. Of the twenty-nine participating Labour and Welfare offices, fifteen were randomised to the experimental condition and received the governmental model for comprehensive follow-up (HOLF) model, including manuals, schemes for follow-up work and supervision structures. The fourteen offices randomised to the control group developed local models for the follow-up. The data comprise baseline (n¼58) and eighteen-month follow-up questionnaires to family coordinators. Effects on goal-focused meetings, relational skills, empowering and comprehensive follow-up processes and the coordination of services were measured. After adjusting for the nested structure of the data in a two-level model, the findings demonstrate that family coordinators from experimental group offices achieved more goal-focused meetings (p<0.001) and demonstrated more relational skills (p¼0.011), compared to family coordinators from control group offices. Results demonstrate that the HOLF model increased the quality of the follow-up when compared to locally developed family intervention projects. The findings are discussed in the context of social work with families in poverty. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | This study has been funded by The Norwegian Directorate of Labour and Welfare. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | British Journal of Social Work;Volume 50, Issue 5, July 2020 | |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | Cluster-randomised designs | en |
dc.subject | Service coordination | en |
dc.subject | Family intervention projects | en |
dc.subject | Poverty | en |
dc.subject | Social work | en |
dc.title | Comparing the Effects of Governmental and Local Family Intervention Projects on Social Work Practices in Norway: A Cluster-Randomised Study | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.updated | 2020-08-06T11:29:53Z | |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcaa003 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1798413 | |
dc.source.journal | British Journal of Social Work |
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